At 29, Stephen Tune has to attend till a minimum of 2035 to be thought of for the Poker Corridor of Fame, and until he decides to step away from taking part in poker, he’ll use these years to construct his poker resume, which is already loaded with huge wins in huge buy-in occasions.
This weekend, Tune added yet one more spectacular outcome to his already stellar poker profession by profitable the €5,000 European Poker Tour Principal Occasion for a career-best €1,290,386 ($1.4 million). The occasion, sponsored by PokerStars, had 1,469 entries (504 re-buys), who generated a prize pool of €9,578,750. Of these, 109 earned their manner into the tourney via qualifiers on PokerStars.
It was the twentieth anniversary of EPT Barcelona, which began when Tune was a bit of boy in Connecticut, doing no matter little boys in Connecticut do. Now, he’s a poker multi-millionaire with almost $8 million in event winnings to his identify. With greater than a dozen victories as recorded by the Hendon Mob, they embody six World Sequence of Poker Circuit rings, one WSOP bracelet, and a World Poker Tour Prime victory in 2022, which was his largest money up this title.
The EPT win is Tune’s first victory of the 12 months. He gained his sixth WSOP Circuit in December of 2023. However he’s end within the prime 9 of occasions 9 occasions in 2024, together with this victory and a runner-up end in a $10,100 occasion on the PokerGo Tour’s ARIA Excessive Curler collection in July.
Though most of the on-line qualifiers had been amateurs and poker hobbyists, the ultimate six gamers included champions with lifetime tourney earnings within the hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
Runner-up Andrew Hulme got here in with $2.2 million in earnings and his greatest lifetime money of $345,000 for an 18th place end within the 2023 WSOP Principal Occasion, which he surpassed — by lots — in Barcelona.
Marius Pertea of Romania hoped his third remaining desk in EPT occasions could be charmed, however he fizzed in third, which was nonetheless good for a career-best money.
Rania Nasreddine, who lives in Tulsa, gained her Circuit ring there final summer time. She was coming off her greatest lifetime money of $473,639 for ending third within the EPT Monte Carlo Principal Occasion in Could. A fourth-place end in Barcelona was value greater than a half-milly.
David Coleman joins Tune as one of many world’s finest excessive curler event gamers. The 31-year-old Las Vegas professional is a four-time PGT champ — all of which got here this 12 months. A few of his highlights embody a $642,900 rating for second within the 2024 Triton Excessive Curler Sequence Jeju $52,000 Turbo Bounty Quattro, $455,000 for second within the $50,000 PokerGO Cup in 2021, and yet one more runner-up end within the $50,000 a Tremendous Excessive Curler Bowl Europe for $364,000.
Rounding out the ultimate desk was Croatia’s Boris Kuzmanovic, who nearly tripled his finest money for a sixth-place end.
Watch the ultimate desk right here:
